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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Greg Dyett.
Australian football captain Sam Kerr has pleaded not guilty in a London court to allegations she harassed a police officer.
The West Australian, who plays for Chelsea in London, is accused of using insulting, threatening or abusive words that caused alarm or distress to an officer during in Twickenham on January 30.
Police allege the incident relates to a dispute over a taxi fare.
Simon Kennedy will run for the Liberal Party in the Sydney seak of Cook.
A by-election will take place after the resignation of the current member, Scott Morrison.
Mr Kennedy says people in the electorate are concerned about the cost of living,
"They're telling me they were promised their energy bills to go down by $275, yet they're up over 30 percent. They're telling me they were hoping their mortgage payments were going down, but they're paying an average of over $24,000 more a year in mortgage repayments."
Private health insurance premiums are set to rise by 3 per cent, the biggest increase in five years.
The federal government has approved the average industry premium rise which comes into effect from April.
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Babies in Western Australia are to receive free immunisations against RSV, a virus that is the number one cause of hospitalisations in infants.
Doses are expected to arrive in preparation for winter when seasonal outbreaks of RSV often occur in young children.
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A new report has found an extra 2.5 million Australians are now classified as obese compared with a decade ago.
Higher rates of obesity have been found in rural and regional areas, poor communities, areas with lower levels of education, and Indigenous communities.
Chair of Obesity Australia Stephen Simpson says some groups are particularly vulnerable to the problem.
"Any community that is socioeconomically disadvantaged, marginalised, living remotely or rural or remote, or even on the verges of our bigger cities, where the options for healthy diet, for example, are low compared with the more affluent. That's a set of circumstances that's going to increase, substantially increase the risk of obesity."
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Malaysia's Prime Minister has declared he supports a renewed search for flight MH370, as the tenth anniversary of the plane's disappearance approaches.
There were 239 on board the flight, including six Australian citizens, which was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished.
US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity has reportedly been invited to discuss its latest search proposal after two previous failed attempts.
Anwar Ibrahim says that Malaysia considers the case to be of utmost importance.
"If there is compelling case - evidence - that it needs to be reopened, we will certainly be happy to reopen. Because I don't think it's an issue of - a technical issue. It is an issue affecting the lives of people. And whatever needs to be done must be done."
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The United States has advised its citizens to return home from Haiti, after renewed unrest in the island nation.
Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti's capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close and hundreds of people to flee to safety.
I'm Greg Dyett and that's SBS News in Easy English.
